Thomas McGahan

Thomas McGahan (1845 – 11 December 1932) was a company chairman and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

He arrived in Queensland on board the Golden Dream in 1863 and became a station hand at Rosenthal.

[1] In 1868 McGahan took up a selection of sixty acres and in 1873 he expanded his property holdings to include Swan Creek in Warwick.

[3] After being chairman of the Glengallan Divisional Board in 1894, McGahan won the seat of Cunningham in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1896.

[1] A number of street names in the Brisbane suburb of Carina Heights are identical to the surnames of former Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.